How to Migrate Gmail to Outlook.com

Descriptive Tutorial to Migrate Gmail to Outlook.com Application

Here the common topic of discussion is how to perform Gmail to Outlook.com migration? Gmail and Outlook.com both are the cloud-based applications. Both are free applications but have their own features and uses.

When users switch one email service and move to another like switching Gmail and choose Outlook.com. To access Gmail account data in Outlook.com, the users need to convert Gmail data into Outlook.com account. Now let us talk in the session how this migration task can be performed easily and effortlessly?

How to export to Outlook.com from Gmail?

To migrate Gmail emails into Outlook.com, the users have two methods –

Method 1. Sync Gmail account to Outlook.com

Method 2. Download Gmail emails and transfer to Outlook.com

Both these methods will help users to view Gmail emails into Outlook.com account. Let us discuss both the methods one by one.

Method 1. Sync Gmail account to Outlook.com

Follow the given steps to connect Gmail account to Outlook.com –

1. Login to https://Outlook.live.com/with your Outlook.com id and password.

2. Go to the gear icon

3. The, click on View all Outlook settings

4. Click on Mail and then select Sync emailAfter that select Gmail.

5. In display name – enter your Gmail id and click OK.

6. This will redirect to the Gmail login page. Provide login details of your Gmail account.

7. Click on the Allow

8. Now, close this screen and refresh the main screen. You will find Gmail account is successfully synced with Outlook.com. Here, you will find a separate folder of your Gmail account. All your Gmail emails are moved into Outlook.com.

Sometimes, it has been found that users are unable to sync Gmail to Outlook.com as they get several problems with it. Therefore, we are suggesting a second method to all those users.

Method 2. Download Gmail emails and transfer to Outlook.com

This method is divided into two steps –

• Download Gmail emails to PST
• Configuring Outlook.com into Outlook

To download Gmail emails into PST format, we recommend you to use Gmail Backup Toolto save Gmail emails into PST format. The software supports complete or selected emails export from Gmail account.

After that, users need to configure Outlook.com in Outlook desktop application. For this follow the steps –

• Open Outlook and click on Add account
• Choose Manual setup or additional servertypes in the Account setup window
• Select POP or IMAP
• Enter Account Type – select IMAP
• Set Incoming and Outgoing ServerProvide login details
• Click OKand save your Account settings.

• After that, drag your PST file to Outlook.com account and wait for the synchronization. Once the synchronization is completed, open your Outlook.com on your web browser.
• You will find all your Gmail emails into Outlook.com account.

Bottom Lines

To migrate to Outlook.com from Gmail account, we have mentioned two methods in the above writeup. The users can choose any of them as per their requirements. No more technical knowledge is needed to perform the export process.